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- Description:
- Letter from Kit Baldwin of the Baldwin Ice Cream Co. of Chicago, Illinois to Nannie E. Black of the Housewives League of Detroit, requesting information on starting a chapter of the Housewives League in Chicago.
- Date Issued:
- 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Form letter from Catherine Pharr, Helen Malloy and Nannie E. Black soliciting advertising for the Housewives League of Detroit bulletin.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-07-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of a declaration for National Fannie B. Peck Day on May 18, 1948, signed by the president of the National Housewives League of America, Christina M. Fuqua. Includes inset portrait of Fannie B. Peck.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Letter from U.S. Representative John D. Dingell, 16th District of Michigan, to Christine Fuqua, President of the Housewives League of Detroit regarding H.R. 15440, the Truth in Packaging bill.
- Date Issued:
- 1966-09-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Letter from Frances E. Mueller of the Consumers League of Michigan to Gertrude Tolbert of the Housewives League of Detroit. Letter requests help to promote a Fight Inflation meeting at Wayne State University. Printed on front: "Consumers League of Michigan, 222 Louise Avenue, Highland Park 3, Michigan. Mrs. C.R. Mueller, President; Prof. Edward W. McFarland and Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, Vice President; Mrs. Roy Haeusler, Secretary; Mrs. Lee Grant, Treasurer. The Consumers League of Michigan is affiliated with the National Consumers League, an educational movement founded in 1899, to awaken consumers' interest in their responsibility for conditions under which goods are made and distributed." Printed on back: "Board of Directors: Mrs. Herbert Bowles, Mrs. Anne Brandes, Julia Brennan, Mary Caplan, Arthur Elder, Mrs. Philip Gentile, Mrs. William H. Kaplan, Edith Kimball, Mrs. Anthony Kleiner, Mrs. I. H. Long, Mrs. Kathleen Lowrie, Mrs. John K. Ormond, Frederick G. Palliaer, Ben Probe, Helene Thorpe, Charlotte Townsend, and Mrs. Martha S. Whissman."
- Date Issued:
- 1945-06-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Envelope addressed to Gertrude Tolbert of the Housewives League of Detroit, accompanying a letter from the Consumers League of Michigan. Handwritten on front: "Mrs. Gertrude Tolbert, 956 Melbourne, Detroit, Mich." Envelope is postmarked June 10, 1945.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-06-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection